Letter 216
To the Same Person.
On the four-formed power of the devil. Moses too, the greatest lawgiver, in Leviticus [the third book of the Pentateuch, which sets out the law of leprosy], for those able to understand more attentively, describes leprosy as being four-headed after the manner of a hydra [the many-headed serpent of Greek myth]: whitening, and turning grey, and turning greenish-yellow, and turning fiery-red.
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Latin / Greek Original
Περὶ τῆς τετραμόρφου δυνάμεως τοῦ διαβόλου, καὶ
Μωσῆς ὁ μέγιστος νομοθέτης ἐν τῷ Λευιτικῷ τοῖς
δυναμένοις ἐπιμελέστερον συνιέναι, λέπραν ὑπάρχειν
τετρακέφαλον δίκην ὕδρας διαγράφει, λευκαίνουσαν,
καὶ γλαυκίζουσαν, καὶ χλωρίζουσαν, καὶ πυρί-
ζουσαν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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